DAMNTHEWEATHER was a Dublin Street Character who roamed around the City in the 40's and 50's frightening people to death.
A star in the world of Dublin street characters of his time, he was as well known as Bang Bang and as much feared Johnny Forty Coats.
His pecularity was to creep up behind people in the street, especially window shoppers....scream out "DAMNTHEWEATHER" as he slapped both arms around his chest and stamped his foot on the ground...enough to give ye a dose of the skutters for a week.....harmless in all other ways....as a kid me and me Ma had our hearts put in our mouth many's a time when he struck.
Unkempt and unshaven, he was a ragged looking fella, and looked a bit like his contemporary "One Eye Ball" (more later), they both had dark features and a hairy face. DTW wore a long faded tatty old black overcoat tied tight in the middle with a piece of rope, no hat and open necked shirt. He was unclean.
In summer or winter he wore the same old cloths,like most of these old characters,but it's thought he damned the summer more than he damned the winter !
Thomas Street and the Liberties was his favorite haunt and he used to dine with all his fellow characters in John's Lane Church beside the hot pipes.
The hot wall in Bridgefoot St, where Thompson's Bakery ovens baked the bread on one side and heated the poor of Dublin on the other side was only used in the mornings and early afternoons.
A regular line up at the hot wall included. J.Forty Coats,Hairy Yank,Hairy Lemon,Shell Shock Joe,and the Bugler Dunne.
There were others down the years, and some I saw first hand and others my folks told me about, others I found in books.....they were;
The No1 man...'BANG ! BANG !' later to become Thomas Lord 'Bang Bang' Dudley.....Zozimus....Endimion....The Bird Flanagan....President Keeley.......Tie Me Up.............Lino.....All Parcels ........Lillian Mc Evoy.....The Toucher Doyle..Jumbo No Toes.....Mad Mary....Jack the Tumbler Dan Donnely....Specs.....Matt Talbot...Siki 'Cyclone' Warren.....Billy in the Bowl...Dunlavin....Hamlet....Uncle...Rock...Prince of Denmark...The Blind Artillery Man...The Professor and Davy Stephens, to name a few..........Some of us have been down this road before, but no Dub forum would be worth it's salt without a mention of Dub's famous street characters, so if you have any experiences or knowledge of any characters jot it down here for the future. PS; have never found a pic of DTW.
A star in the world of Dublin street characters of his time, he was as well known as Bang Bang and as much feared Johnny Forty Coats.
His pecularity was to creep up behind people in the street, especially window shoppers....scream out "DAMNTHEWEATHER" as he slapped both arms around his chest and stamped his foot on the ground...enough to give ye a dose of the skutters for a week.....harmless in all other ways....as a kid me and me Ma had our hearts put in our mouth many's a time when he struck.
Unkempt and unshaven, he was a ragged looking fella, and looked a bit like his contemporary "One Eye Ball" (more later), they both had dark features and a hairy face. DTW wore a long faded tatty old black overcoat tied tight in the middle with a piece of rope, no hat and open necked shirt. He was unclean.
In summer or winter he wore the same old cloths,like most of these old characters,but it's thought he damned the summer more than he damned the winter !
Thomas Street and the Liberties was his favorite haunt and he used to dine with all his fellow characters in John's Lane Church beside the hot pipes.
The hot wall in Bridgefoot St, where Thompson's Bakery ovens baked the bread on one side and heated the poor of Dublin on the other side was only used in the mornings and early afternoons.
A regular line up at the hot wall included. J.Forty Coats,Hairy Yank,Hairy Lemon,Shell Shock Joe,and the Bugler Dunne.
There were others down the years, and some I saw first hand and others my folks told me about, others I found in books.....they were;
The No1 man...'BANG ! BANG !' later to become Thomas Lord 'Bang Bang' Dudley.....Zozimus....Endimion....The Bird Flanagan....President Keeley.......Tie Me Up.............Lino.....All Parcels ........Lillian Mc Evoy.....The Toucher Doyle..Jumbo No Toes.....Mad Mary....Jack the Tumbler Dan Donnely....Specs.....Matt Talbot...Siki 'Cyclone' Warren.....Billy in the Bowl...Dunlavin....Hamlet....Uncle...Rock...Prince of Denmark...The Blind Artillery Man...The Professor and Davy Stephens, to name a few..........Some of us have been down this road before, but no Dub forum would be worth it's salt without a mention of Dub's famous street characters, so if you have any experiences or knowledge of any characters jot it down here for the future. PS; have never found a pic of DTW.
Summer's too bloody hot
Winter's too bloody cold
Spring is only for lambs
and Autumn for cleaning trees
Oh, Oh, Oh, damn the weather.
Winter's too bloody cold
Spring is only for lambs
and Autumn for cleaning trees
Oh, Oh, Oh, damn the weather.
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